- I put pressure on myself to be musically fresh, which is different from being trendy or being current. I like a fusion of sounds, just as long as it's funky.
- I remember being five years old and it being like there was an orchestra in my mind and there was this soundtrack playing. I didn't know where it was coming from, but it was there. What I'm saying is that I tried on the pop hat for awhile and it was fun. But I'm ready to try new things.
- This idea that artists are always going to make the right choices and do the right thing is kind of a falsehood. That's what my songs are about. Falling down and getting back up again.
- My long-term goal is to be independent, quite frankly. I got quite spoiled doing Mi Plan, and in the context of my English projects I've had a lot of creative freedom. It's quite addictive, that creative independence. You start to crave it more and more as you move forward.
- I've come to my rose-colored nostalgia moment, where I'm celebrating home. It's taken many years to get to the point where I feel lucky.
- [on working with producer Rodney Jerkins and his music] When you meet people like that, you've got to really deliver. I like feeling like that, like I've gotta hit it out of the park. Every time I pulled up to his studio, I felt like a little kid riding her bike over to a friend's house, saying, 'What are we going to play today?'I took the time to celebrate it. I knew that you can never recreate those moments. They happen once and they are gone.
- [noticing that her album Folklore was particularly successful in Germany, where it reached the top 5 on the albums chart] Why do Germans love this album? I think I figured it out: It's so cerebral. It's great in its own way, but that's a different side.
- [describing the songs on her album Mi Plan] Simple love songs.
- Roses are red / Some diamonds are blue / Chivalry is dead / But you're still kinda cute
- I wish I hadn't seen all of the realness / And all the real people are really not real at all / The more I learn, the more I learn / The more I cry, the more I cry / As I say goodbye to the way of life / I thought I had designed for me
- I'm searching for things that I just cannot see / Why don't you don't you don't you come and be with me / I pretend to be cool with me, want to believe / That I can do it on my own without my heart on my sleeve / I'm running, I'm running, catch up with me life / Where is the love that I'm looking to find / It's all in me, can't you see, why can't you, why can't you see it's all in me
- You liked me till you heard my shit on the radio / Well I hate to say but pop ain't going solo / You liked me till you heard my shit on the radio / But now I'm just too mainstream for you, oh no / You liked me till you seen me on your t.v. / Well if you're so low below then why you watching / You say good things come to those who wait / Well I've been waiting a long time for it
- Paint my face in your magazines / Make it look whiter than it seems / Paint me over with your dreams / Shove away my ethnicity / Burn every notion that I may have a flame inside to fight / And say just what is on my mind / Without offending your might
- You said that you had said all that you had to say / You said baby it's the end of the day / And we gave a lot but it wasn't enough / We got so tired that we just gave up / We didn't respect it / We went and neglected it / We didn't deserve it / But I never expected this / Our love floated out the window / Our love floated out the back door / Our love floated up in the sky to heaven / It's part of a plan / It's back in God's hands / Back in God's hands
- Traveling I only stop at exits / Wondering if I'll stay / Young and restless / Living this way I stress less / I want to pull away when the dream dies / The pain sets in and I don't cry / I only feel gravity and I wonder why / Flames to dust / Lovers to friends / Why do all good things come to an end
- Music can help someone through a good time, it can help them through a hard time. It works both ways.
- If I can't get along with someone who voted for a different person, we're doomed. That's why we have war. All we're missing is a little bit more compassion and empathy.
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